At the strip in the seventies

[mockingbird812]

Cool cool shots Anders! Interesting shrouds over the pipes on the Opel Manta.

[jannes_z-28]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mockingbird812</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Cool cool shots Anders! Interesting shrouds over the pipes on the Opel Manta. </div></div>

It was a requirement to prevent oil hitting the hot pipes, a few years later the dual pipes came around.

You got me inspired Anders, I have to start digging in my drawers. I have a few pictures from the same time.

Jan

[Carleen]

Speedwin Cuda was a Sox &amp; Martin 70 Hemi Cuda.

http://race68.com/donati.htm

[Carleen]

Speedwin Cuda

[COPO_Anders]

Thank you guys ! Looking at old pics is real fun so you better find some of yours Jan, and post them.
I don´t think &quot;Juan&quot; had any original L-88 Corvettes but he bought hard to find parts in his quest for lower times.

I believe this one is the same as the one with &quot;Beckers&quot; on it. Just a year or two later.



Here is another one, a convertible, at the track in Anderstorp. I don´t know when I took this one but it could be the early eighties.

[Mayhem]

Nice!

[COPO_Anders]

Here is the Thorleif Corvette before it was sponsored by them. Jan &quot;Juan&quot; Johansson was the man to beat for many years in the Stock class. He usually competed with a L-88 but also had a couple of ZL-1 engines. Beckers paint is the sponsor, and they also sponsored Lawrienco´s Firebird as seen in one of the earlier pics.



The UFO Mustang and another Corvette.



Here is the Jungle Jim chassie with the Opel body in 1976.



Ragnarök also had the shroud over the pipes.

[Xplantdad]

Väldigt coola Anders

[COPO_Anders]

That is actually a perfect translation Bruce !
Best to keep them short, a longer one would be more difficult.

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[Carleen]

I know where that Thorleifs Corvette is today and a friend of my have one of the ZL1 engine block from it.